As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?